The beginning of my new life

September 1, 2024

    I woke up to the nurse checking my vitales, the clock on the wall at 10:15 am and I was really hungry.

"When is breakfast?"

"Oh I see your finally awake, I'll go get you your breakfast right now, I'll be back in no time"

   Jake was still in the hospital waiting room, from last night, when he decided to do some research to see if he can find anything on Alison. After about 30 minutes of searching he found a girl named Alison Tucker who went missing on August 30, 2023. It said that she was 16 years old and the picture on the website was of a happy cheerleader standing next to a taller football player. She looked like she could be the one that he found because they actually look a lot alike, it's just hard to imagine that this once happy cheerleader is now a broken girl who was stuck with a sick creep for a year with no one to help her. He was so worried about Alison that he didn't even hear Doctor Rivera coming up to him until he was right in front of him.

"Hey Jake, Alison is stable now and asked for you."

Jake was a little surprised to hear him say that after the way that she freaked out on him just a little while ago but he reluctantly got up and went to her room.

  

  After I got done eating breakfast I looked to find Jake standing in the doorway with a lost look on his face.

"You know that you can come in right and I'm sorry about earlier, it's just that I forgot that I was safe and with you looking so much like him, I thought that you were him."

Slowly, he came into the room and sat down in the chair beside me. I wasn't sure what he would say to me whenever he got his thoughts collected but I hoped he didn't ask me about anything that was done to me there.

    Jake didn't actually know what he was doing there and he wished he just went home but he couldn't bring himself to leave her alone even if she didn't want him there so he was there sitting in the chair beside her bed. After a few minutes he figured out what he wanted to ask.

"So what do you think you are going to do after you get out of here?"

"That's easy I'm gonna go back to school and graduate and then get the hell out of this town as fast as I can"

Jake could understand that need to get away, even though her need was stronger than his. He wasn't totally sure what he wanted to say to her but he knew that whatever he was going to say would either make her close herself off or make her hate him.

"Hey Alison, what is it that he did to you to make you so afraid of me"

She thought about the best way to put it in words without telling him every detail of what happened but just settled with a simple explanation.

"I don't want to actually talk about it yet but it's mainly your eyes...they are the same and every time i look into your eyes i see him and his cold stare"

I looked at the door so I wouldn't have to look at Jake staring at me and found that Doctor Rivera was standing at the door.

"Hey Alison, how are you feeling today?"

"I'm as good as i'm going to get right now.....what is it that you needed to tell me yesterday before i fell asleep?"

"Are you sure you want to hear this? it isn't something you are going to want to hear right now after everything that has happened"

"Better now than never right"

I let out a nervous laugh to try to get the tension out of the room.

"Well we ran blood tests as precaution in case anything happened that we would need to know in case it would affect the way that we treat you and we discover that you are carrying a child"

I layed there frozen in bed praying that I had heard him wrong because I couldn't be pregnant I just couldn't. Not with that sick monster.....When I looked up at Doctor Rivera I knew that I had heard correctly and I felt sick to my stomach so I tried to get up but I threw up on the floor beside the bed.

"N-No I can't b-be p-please test it again I'm NOT pregnant."

"I'm so sorry Alison but we ran the tests multiple times to be sure but the results of each test were conclusive, we will be here to help you through your recovery and your pregnancy so if you need anything that we can give you just let us know"

"When will I be able to go home?"

The doctor looked like he didn't want to answer that question and now i'm afraid that I don't want to hear what he has to say.

"We tried to get ahold of your parents to let them know that you have been found and so they can get you when we release you, in about a week if you are recovering smoothly, but we weren't able to get ahold of them so we got the police to find out for us and the news we received was not great news Alison....."

"What did you find out? Where's my mom?"

"She's gone Alison....She passed away 3 months ago..."

"But how she was a young healthy women what would make her just pass away with no bad conditions or history of it"

"She...."

"She...committed suicide.....I'm so sorry Alison"

No... No.... No..... that can't be right.

Jake couldn't believe what he just heard. He looked at Alison with a terrified look on his face and that's when he watched as the girl registered everything that she was told today and just broke down the tortured sob that he hear was the most terrifying thing that he has ever heard and to watch a broken girl break more is the worst thing to have to see.

I cried and I cried until my throat was too sore to cry anymore and then I just laid there looking up at the ceiling wishing I could go back a year and fix everything that has happened so that I don't have to face this because I don't know if I can. After what felt like forever I finally went to sleep even though I'm haunted by his memory every time I close my eyes.